At the house of her son, Albert G. Ruffin, in Hanover County, Va. Mrs. Margaret Ruffin, widow of the late William Ruffin, Esq. formerly of this City. In the fall of 1825, Mrs. R. lost in the short space of four days, her husband and a son; during the last fall she lost another son, a resident of the State of Mississippi, who breathed his last at Philadelphia. The affectionate wife and the venerable parent now follows them to the tomb; leaving behind her other children, many relations and a numerous circle of friends, to bewail her loss.
—Published in Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, North Carolina), March 9, 1827, p. 1.
At the house of her son, Albert G. Ruffin, in Hanover County, Va. Mrs. Margaret Ruffin, widow of the late William Ruffin, Esq. formerly of this City. In the fall of 1825, Mrs. R. lost in the short space of four days, her husband and a son; during the last fall she lost another son, a resident of the State of Mississippi, who breathed his last at Philadelphia. The affectionate wife and the venerable parent now follows them to the tomb; leaving behind her other children, many relations and a numerous circle of friends, to bewail her loss.
—Published in Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, North Carolina), March 9, 1827, p. 1.
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